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Show Garage Notes Mr. Samuel Newhouse has received his new French car. It is a 35-horsepower touring car with landaulette body. The Automobile Exchange has delivered Jackson four-cylinder, 35-horscpowcr, five-passenger touring cars to E. L. Davis and S. J. Lynn. The Studebaker Wagon company is expecting two 40-horsepower cars, one a touring and the other a limousine. They claim these will be two of the handsomest cars in the city. Dr. J. F. Critchlow has purchased a four-cylinder, 35-horsepower, five-passenger touring car from the Automobile Exchange. Mr. George Y. Wallace has bought a two-cylinder, 24-horsepower car of the same make. Burt Fuller will be driving a Pierce and a Packard car in the races on Saturday, and possibly a Stearns also. The Tom Botteril Agency has sold Mr. J. A. Groesbeck a Stevens-Duryea Stevens-Duryea touring car. AUTOMOBILES FOR MAIL DELIVERY. The postal authorities at Washington, D. C, have purchased two single-cylinder Cadillacs with which to experiment as to the advisability of substituting automobiles for the present horse and wagon for collecting mail. Should the experiment prove successful it is probable that automobiles will be used entirely for collecting mail throughout the District of Columbia. PUBLICITY MAN FOR VANDERBILT CUP. Henry Caldwell, late of the New York Evening Telegram, is in charge of the publicity department of the Vanderbilt cup rate. This means that the work will be exceptionally well done, as Mr. Caldwell is an expert in this line. ANOTHER TRANSCONTINENTAL RECORD. Two college students, C. T. Crocker and M. C. Scott, with their chauffeur, Charles West, have just completed a cross-country run irom New York to San Mateo, Cal. Leaving New York on Tune 25 they arrived at San Mateo July 14, making the entire trip in twenty days, inclusive, of stops, one of which was two days at Cheyenne where they waited to have one of the wheels of their car repaired! ihe car in which the 'trip was made was a 40-horsepower Fiat run-about. SERIOUS ACCIDENT NARROWLY AVERTED. What might have been a serious accident was narrowly averted l.y the presence of mind of Billy Royal, Mr. S. Birch's chauffeur, on Monday morning. A party comprising Fred Birch, Arthur Crabbc, J. O'Connor and Miss Evans were returning from Wasatch, where they had been spending Sunday at the resort. As they were coming V down Little Cottonwood canyon, at a point where the road was very narrow, they were met by a supply wagon, on which the leaders were a couple of green colts that were not auto broke. The colts became excited and it was only by running the machine into the willows at the side of the road that an accident was prevented. The lamps of the machine were smashed and other minor damage done to the car, but none of the occupants were hurt and the car was able to proceed to town with its own power. LADIES TOURING IN AUTO. Miss Alice Potter of Elgin, 111., has started on a trip to New York ynd return in her 30-horsepower Haynes car. She is accompanied by Miss Ida Dangerfield of Elgin, Miss Elizabeth Forest of Geneva and ! Miss Elizabeth Hunt of St. Charles. Miss Potter has already 15,000 miles of long-distance touring to her credit and on her trips has done all the work in connection with the car herself, at no time carrying a mechanic. On the present trip Miss Potter will cover about 2,500 I miles before her return to Elgin. As the trip is quite an unusual one for a party of ladies to undertake, it is creating considerable interest in auto circles, and the Chicago Automobile club has notified the different clubs along the route that any courtesies extended to the fair tourists will be appreciated by them. PACKARD PEOPLE TO BUILD A LIGHT CAR Considerable interest has been excited by the announcement .of the Packard Motor Car company that they are about to put an 18-horsepower 18-horsepower car on the market. It will be manufactured for next season's trade, along with their 30-horsepower car, and the price will be $3,200. The new model is a reduction in size of the big car and will, like it, be fitted with a magneto. The "bodies will be of sheet aluminum, of any style from runabout to limousine. GOOD ROADS BUTTONS. The Salt Lake Automobile club have placed an order for 10,000 "Good Roads" buttons, which they will have ready for distribution by September 5. |